Karim Oweiss

Karim Oweiss,

Professor

Department: EG-ELECTRICAL / COMPUTER ENG
Business Phone: (352) 294-1898
Business Email: koweiss@ufl.edu

Teaching Profile

Courses Taught
2019-2020,2022-2023
EEE5283 Neural Signals, Systems and Technology
2018-2020
EEL4930 Special Topics in Electrical Engineering
2015-2019,2022
EEE4260C Bioelectrical Systems
2018-2019
BME6905 Individual Work in Biomedical Engineering
2018-2019
BME7980 Research for Doctoral Dissertation
2016,2018-2019
BME6907 BME Project
2018
EEL7979 Advanced Research
2015-2018
EEL5934 Special Topics in Electrical Engineering
2018
EML7980 Research for Doctoral Dissertation
2016-2018
EGN4912 Engineering Directed Independent Research
2017-2018
GMS6070 Sensory and Motor Systems
2016-2017
BME7979 Advanced Research
2015
GMS7794 Neuroscience Seminar
2022-2023
EEE4800 Neural Signals, Systems, and Technology
2023-2024
EEE4260 Bioelectrical Systems

Research Profile

Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)

0000-0002-1175-7258

Publications

2023
Compressive sensing of functional connectivity maps from patterned optogenetic stimulation of neuronal ensembles
Patterns. 4(10) [DOI] 10.1016/j.patter.2023.100845. [PMID] 37876895.
2021
Marked point process representation of oscillatory dynamics underlying working memory.
Journal of neural engineering. 18(2) [DOI] 10.1088/1741-2552/abd577. [PMID] 33348332.
2018
Emergent coordination underlying learning to reach to grasp with a brain-machine interface.
Journal of neurophysiology. 119(4):1291-1304 [DOI] 10.1152/jn.00982.2016. [PMID] 29357477.
2017
Changes in cortical network connectivity with long-term brain-machine interface exposure after chronic amputation.
Nature communications. 8(1) [DOI] 10.1038/s41467-017-01909-2. [PMID] 29180616.
2016
Proceedings of the Third Annual Deep Brain Stimulation Think Tank: A Review of Emerging Issues and Technologies.
Frontiers in neuroscience. 10 [DOI] 10.3389/fnins.2016.00119. [PMID] 27092042.
2015
Neuroplasticity subserving the operation of brain–machine interfaces
Neurobiology of Disease. 83:161-171 [DOI] 10.1016/j.nbd.2015.05.001. [PMID] 25968934.
2014
A fully automated rodent conditioning protocol for sensorimotor integration and cognitive control experiments.
Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE. (86) [DOI] 10.3791/51128. [PMID] 24798582.
2014
Sorting and tracking neuronal spikes via simple thresholding.
IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. 22(4):858-69 [DOI] 10.1109/TNSRE.2013.2289918. [PMID] 24240005.
2014
Temporal precision in population-but not individual neuron-dynamics reveals rapid experience-dependent plasticity in the rat barrel cortex.
Frontiers in computational neuroscience. 8 [DOI] 10.3389/fncom.2014.00155. [PMID] 25505407.
2014
Tracking single units in chronic, large scale, neural recordings for brain machine interface applications.
Frontiers in neuroengineering. 7 [DOI] 10.3389/fneng.2014.00023. [PMID] 25071546.
2013
Operant conditioning of a multiple degree-of-freedom brain-machine interface in a primate model of amputation.
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference. 2013:303-6 [DOI] 10.1109/EMBC.2013.6609497. [PMID] 24109684.
2012
A Fully Implantable, Programmable and Multimodal Neuroprocessor for Wireless, Cortically Controlled Brain-Machine Interface Applications.
Journal of signal processing systems. 69(3):351-361 [PMID] 23050029.
2012
NeuroQuest: a comprehensive analysis tool for extracellular neural ensemble recordings.
Journal of neuroscience methods. 204(1):189-201 [DOI] 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.10.027. [PMID] 22101141.
2012
Optimal space-time precoding of artificial sensory feedback through mutichannel microstimulation in bi-directional brain-machine interfaces.
Journal of neural engineering. 9(6) [DOI] 10.1088/1741-2560/9/6/065004. [PMID] 23187009.
2011
A programmable and implantable microsystem for multimodal processing of ensemble neural recordings.
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference. 2011:3035-8 [DOI] 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090830. [PMID] 22254979.
2011
Evaluation of a closed loop inductive power transmission system on an awake behaving animal subject.
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference. 2011:7658-61 [DOI] 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091887. [PMID] 22256112.
2011
Millisecond-timescale local network coding in the rat primary somatosensory cortex.
PloS one. 6(6) [DOI] 10.1371/journal.pone.0021649. [PMID] 21738751.
2011
Model-based analysis and control of a network of basal ganglia spiking neurons in the normal and parkinsonian states.
Journal of neural engineering. 8(4) [DOI] 10.1088/1741-2560/8/4/045002. [PMID] 21775788.
2011
Neural feedback for instantaneous spatiotemporal modulation of afferent pathways in bi-directional brain-machine interfaces.
IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. 19(5):521-33 [DOI] 10.1109/TNSRE.2011.2162003. [PMID] 21859634.
2011
Using brain-computer interfaces to induce neural plasticity and restore function.
Journal of neural engineering. 8(2) [DOI] 10.1088/1741-2560/8/2/025004. [PMID] 21436534.
2010
An implantable VLSI architecture for real time spike sorting in cortically controlled Brain Machine Interfaces.
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference. 2010:1569-72 [DOI] 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5626691. [PMID] 21096383.
2010
Causal neuronal networks provide functional signatures of stimulus encoding.
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference. 2010:5460-3 [DOI] 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5626535. [PMID] 21096284.
2010
On the use of dynamic Bayesian networks in reconstructing functional neuronal networks from spike train ensembles.
Neural computation. 22(1):158-89 [DOI] 10.1162/neco.2009.11-08-900. [PMID] 19852619.
2010
Signal Processing for Neural Spike Trains
Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience. 2010:1-2 [DOI] 10.1155/2010/698751. [PMID] 20454532.
2010
Synergistic Coding by Cortical Neural Ensembles.
IEEE transactions on information theory. 56(2):875-899 [PMID] 20376281.
2009
Compressed and distributed sensing of neuronal activity for real time spike train decoding.
IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. 17(2):116-27 [DOI] 10.1109/TNSRE.2009.2012711. [PMID] 19193517.
2009
Identifying functional connectivity in large-scale neural ensemble recordings: a multiscale data mining approach.
Neural computation. 21(2):450-77 [DOI] 10.1162/neco.2008.09-07-606. [PMID] 19431266.
2008
Impact of compressed sensing of motor cortical activity on spike train decoding in Brain Machine Interfaces.
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference. 2008:5302-5 [DOI] 10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4650411. [PMID] 19163914.
2008
Reconstructing functional neuronal circuits using dynamic Bayesian networks.
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference. 2008:5531-4 [DOI] 10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4650467. [PMID] 19163970.
2007
Area-Power Efficient VLSI Implementation of Multichannel DWT for Data Compression in Implantable Neuroprosthetics.
IEEE transactions on biomedical circuits and systems. 1(2):128-35 [DOI] 10.1109/TBCAS.2007.907557. [PMID] 23851667.
2007
Clustering synaptically-coupled neuronal populations under systematic variations in temporal dependence.
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference. 2007:1445-8 [PMID] 18002238.
2007
Impact of lossy compression on neural response characteristics extracted from high-density intra-cortical implant data.
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference. 2007:5358-61 [PMID] 18003218.
2006
A MIMO channel approach for characterizing electrode-tissue interface in long-term chronic microelectrode array recordings.
Conference proceedings : … Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference. 2006:3357-60 [PMID] 17946563.
2006
A systems approach for data compression and latency reduction in cortically controlled brain machine interfaces.
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering. 53(7):1364-77 [PMID] 16830940.
2006
An adaptive multiple-input multiple-output analog-to-digital converter for high density neuroprosthetic electrode arrays.
Conference proceedings : … Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference. 2006:656-9 [PMID] 17946414.
2006
Assessing temporal and spatial evolution of clusters of functionally interdependent neurons using graph partitioning techniques.
Conference proceedings : … Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference. 2006:1601-4 [PMID] 17946054.
2006
Hardware considerations of a spatial filter for decorrelating high-density multielectrode neural recordings.
Conference proceedings : … Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference. 2006:1244-7 [PMID] 17946884.
2005
Latency Reduction during Telemetry Transmission in Brain-Machine Interfaces.
Conference proceedings : … Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference. 2005:2075-8 [PMID] 17282636.
2005
Multiresolution bayesian detection of multiunit extracellular spike waveforms in multichannel neuronal recordings.
Conference proceedings : … Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference. 2006:141-4 [PMID] 17282131.
2004
A reduced complexity integer lifting wavelet-based module for real-time processing in implantable neural interface devices.
Conference proceedings : … Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference. 2004:4552-5 [PMID] 17271319.
2004
An information theoretic approach for optimizing the analysis of multi-electrode multi-unit neuronal recordings.
Conference proceedings : … Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference. 2004:4520-3 [PMID] 17271311.

Grants

Apr 2021 – Dec 2022
Sensory Manipulation as a Countermeasure to Robot Teleportation Delays
Role: Co-Project Director/Principal Investigator
Funding: NASA JOHNSON SPACE FLIGHT CTR
Sep 2019 ACTIVE
Dual Lead Thalamic DBR-DBS Interface for Closed Loop Control of Severe Essential Tremor
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: NATL INST OF HLTH NINDS
Sep 2016 – Jul 2020
Neuromodulation-based treatment of diabetes: identifying anatomical and physiological pancreatic innervation targets
Role: Co-Investigator
Funding: NATL INST OF HLTH OD
Sep 2015 – Aug 2018
Collaborative Research: IUSE: EHR – Enhancing and Expanding Experiential Learning Modules across Disciplines and Institutions
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: NATL SCIENCE FOU
Jul 2015 – Jun 2021
Optimizing micro stimulation to restore lost somatosensation
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: NATL INST OF HLTH NINDS

Contact Details

Phones:
Business:
(352) 294-1898
Emails:
Business:
koweiss@ufl.edu
Addresses:
Business Mailing:
NEW ENGINEERING BUILDING ROOM 457
1064 CENTER DRIVE
GAINESVILLE FL 32611